Creative evening of the artist Veniamin Smekhov "Brodsky and around"

October 30 at 18:00 as part of the festival "Friday in Pushkin" in the Italian courtyard of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Alexander Pushkin will host the jubilee creative evening of the artist Veniamin Smekhov "Brodsky and around".

The evening program includes poems by Joseph Brodsky: "October is a month of sadness and colds", "In the village, God does not live in corners", fragments from the cycle "20 sonnets to Mary Stuart", as well as a dedication to "Mikhail Baryshnikov", "Dedication to Chekhov", "Passing the Akimov Theater" (to Sergei Wolf). Veniamin Smekhov will also read the works of Akhmatova, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Slutsky and other poets.

Veniamin Smekhov, theater and film actor, director, screenwriter:

“As an actor, it will be a joy for me to share with the audience-listeners the musicality of Joseph Brodsky’s intonations, the richness of the colors of the lyrical, tragic, gentle and“ complex ”poet. At this evening, his name will be surrounded by the voices of classics and contemporaries - in poetry and prose. Joseph Brodsky gratefully and generously appreciated his friends and those whom he regarded as his teachers. I want Brodsky, the “futurist,” and Brodsky, the “comedian," and Brodsky, the thinker, to be especially sounded. In this I will be accompanied by lines of poetry by Uflyand and Kushner, Akhmatova and Pasternak, Mayakovsky and Slutsky, Kharms and Prigov. "

Entry to the event with a separate ticket. You can buy tickets via the link: https://tickets.pushkinmuseum.art/ru/tickets/45719/30.10.2020/18:00